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Daniel Abib

Author: Daniel Abib

Daniel Abib is a senior specialist solutions architect at AWS, focused on generative AI and Amazon Bedrock — and passionate about serverless. He helps startups and enterprises build AI-powered applications and modernize with cloud-native architectures. A three-time Ironman finisher and four-time re:Invent speaker, he brings the same endurance mindset to building cloud solutions.

AWS Weekly Roundup: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock, Strands harness, and more (September 28, 2026)

If there’s one theme that defined last week, it’s choice. The frontier models keep arriving, and the interesting question is no longer just “how smart is it?” but “which model fits this step, at this cost, at this latency?” That’s exactly what landed on Amazon Bedrock over the past few days: GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 […]

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads

Learn how Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads. Trace, evaluate, and experiment with AI agents across any framework—directly from your IDE or a standalone web experience—using open standards and built-in evaluators for quality, correctness, and coherence.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Welcome DuckLabs to the team, Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), and more (August 31, 2026)

The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda durable execution for .NET, and more (July 27, 2026)

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, AWS service availability updates, and more (July 6, 2026)

A couple of editions ago I wrote about what I find so energizing about working with startups. Last week I got a fresh dose of it: I spent a few days with the AWS Startups team, listening to stories of founders talking about the problems they’re actually solving. One story that stayed with me came […]

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